Sum, Prompts

Draw a picture or write a visual description of The Giantess from Chapter 5.

Write a story inspired by Chapter 7, "The Cast," in which the deceased are acting in the dreams of the living.

Write a ten-minute scene or one-act play about the afterlife using one of Sum's tales as a model, or using your own version of the afterlife not based on the Buddhist, Muslim, or Judaeo-Christian version of the afterlife. (prompt from Theatre Professor Mark Bly)

Write an essay about how real-life scientific advancements may pave the way for some of the scenarios in Sum. Think about the cryonics movement or Ray Kurzweil's theories on "the singularity," for example.